ENTERPRISE-SCALE TRANSACTION PROCESSING SOFTWARE WITH ASSOCIATED SOFTWARE CREATION AND EDITING TOOLS FOR THE REAL-TIME PROCESSING OF HIGH VOLUME, INFORMATION-RICH TRANSACTIONS GOVERNED BY CONTRACTS AND RULES THAT HAVE BEEN CONVERTED TO A NATURAL LANGUAGE-LIKE CODE THAT CAN BE DIRECTLY INTERPRETED BY THE TRANSACTION PROCESSING SOFTWARE WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF CURRENT AND HISTORICAL DATA AS MAINTAINED IN A REAL AND NEAR-REAL TIME DATA WAREHOUSE